Collar-supporting device.



' N. G. BURGSTBR.

COLLAR SUPPORTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.11,1911.

1,059,826. Pa en ed Apr. 22, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANDDRAPH C0,.WASHINOTON, D. c

NATHAN G. BURGSTER, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

COLLAR-SUPPORTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 11, 1911.

Patented Apr. 22, 1913. Serial No. 620,283.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN G. Bunosrnn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Supporting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in collar retaining and adjustingdevices, and has for one of its objects to provide a simple, durable,and efiective device, to be applied to the under edge of the collar andto the button by which the two ends of the collar are secured to theshirt band; adapted and arranged to yieldingly hold the collar ends intheir respective, relative, proper positions, thereby to improve thegeneral appearance of the collar as a whole.

Other and further objects of my invention will become apparent topersons skilled in the art from a consideration of the specificationtaken in conjunction with the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a frontelevation of a collar, partly broken away to show the preferred form ofmy device applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device inits preferred form; Fig. 3 is an end elevation thereof; and Fig. 4 is aplan view of the same.

In all of the views, the same reference characters indicate similarparts.

Wearers of collars, and especially of high collars are frequentlyannoyed by sagg ng of the collar whereby the upper -meet1ng edgesthereof are abnormally separated, and its tendency to extend forwardlyfrom the neck presents the appearance of an ill-fitting poorly fashionedarticle of apparel, and renders the collar uncomfortable to the wearer.My device is intended to overcome these defects without introducing anyother objectionable features.

Preferably, my device is composed of a single piece of spring wire, suchas piano wire, or the like, without one part overlying another part, asin twisted structures, and which may, or may not, be ornamented byplating, or otherwise, if so desired.

While the device is especially desirable for use with relatively highcollars, it must be understood that it is not limited in its use tocollars of this type.

In the preferred form of my device, as

shown in the drawing, collar-engaging port1ons are provided by theup-turned legs 17-17 and the cooperating vertical portions 1818. At thebottom of the parts 18-18, the wire is laterally deflected to providestops or supports l919 upon which the margin of the collar rests, andclips 20-20, as convenient means for disengaging the device. Theportions 16-46 are located above the inverted or clownturnedcollar-engaging loop 10, and n0rmally, they occupy positions that raisethe outer portions of the parts 10--10 to an angle from the horizontal,so that when this form of device is applied to a collar, and undertension, these parts are somewhat depressed, as shown in Fig. 1, andfurther, as best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the portions of the loops whichextend upwardly from 10 and 10 are offset so that stress appliedupwardly at 10 operates to press the loops backwardly against thesurface of the collar.

In applying the device to a collar, the loop 10 is placed over the shankof the button 11, then the terminal vertical ends or legs 1717 aretucked under and behind the collar band 12, the band resting on theparts 19-19, in which position, obviously, the portion of the wirebetween the central button-engaging kink or loop 10 and thecollar-engaging clip 20 will be flexed to press the collar upwardly,portions 10 -10 and 1616 being both pulled down from their originalslanting positions shown in Fig. 2 to horizontal position as shown inFig. 1. Thus, it will be observed that very effective tension is securedwithout any substantial exposure of the device between the overhanginglaps of the collar, all the larger tensioning portions of my devicelying under said laps, and out of register with the intermediateopening. Further, it will be ob served that the clip 20, involving theupright positions 17 and 18 both rising from a horizontal portion, isadapted to hold the edge of the collar with a slight spring grip togreater extent than if the horizontal portions were omitted and thatdifferent thicknesses of collar may be used without affecting theefficiency of my device.

When the device is to be removed, the finger or finger nail of thewearer is placed on either of the parts 20.20, and pressure is applieduntil the device is sufficiently depressed to carry the leg 17 below themargin of the band, after which it may readily be disengaged from thebutton.

While I have herein described my device in its preferred form, it isevident that changes, such, for instance, as the making part 16-16somewhat circular, or rounding, in configuration, instead of angular,may be made by persons skilled in the art without departing from thespirit and scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. A collar supporting device for engagement of the edges and outersurface of a col lar comprising, in combination with a centralbuttoaengaging bend and opposite collar-engaging clips, a singlestraight wire portion on each side of the central bend adapted to extenda distance beyond the exposed surface between the laps of a collar andan open loop portion between the end of each said straight portion andclip for extending over a substantial area of the outer surface of acollar behind the laps thereof, the loop lying in a vertical plane at aslight angle to the vertical plane of I the straight portions, and theportion of the loop which extends upwardly from the end of the straightportion being tilted forwardly out of both said vertical planes, for

provision of vertically non-alining points of communication between saidbutton-engaging bend and each opposite collar-engaging clip, whereby theflexing of the device incident to use shall result in positively fording said loop portion against the surface of the supported collar abovethe point on the edge thereof engaged by the clip through the agency ofsaid vertically non-alining means of communication between the buttonand collar-engaging members the relative movements of which in theirvertical planes result in said flexing of the device.

2. A collar-supporting device comprising, in a piece of wire, a centralbutton-engaging loop and opposite collar-engaging clips, said bend andclips normally lying in substantially the same horizontal plane, theportions between said bend and clips adapted to be flexed by upwardmovement of the bend with respect to the clips, each including a loopabove the respective clip, the inner limb of each loop extendingdownwardly toward said horizontal plane of the buttonengaging bend at abackward inclination for operation under flexing as described.

3. A device of the character described, having a central button-engagingkink, members extending laterally in both directions therefrom, and anedge-engaging means at the end of each member comprising a verticalmember, a horizontal member extending from the bottom thereof in adirection to lie parallel to the collar edge to be engaged, a horizontalmember bent around in parallelism with the first said horizontal member,and a vertical member bent upwardly from the last said horizontal memberinto parallelism with the first said vertical member, said verticalmembers being therefore bodily movable by flexing of the connectionbetween the horizontal members for spring engagement of a collar betweensaid vertical members.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

NATHAN Gr. BURGSTER.

In the presence of- W. H. JONES, IDA S. FISHER.

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I Washington, D. G.

